[VIDEO] Ranch Riot! Protestors at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada take on the Feds and stand their ground.

There was a protest in Nevada yesterday over the Feds coming in and creating quite the atmosphere of intimidation, including creating a free speech zone for people to protest, all because a man refused to comply with the federal government (BLM) over his cattle grazing on public lands.

Watch:

Okay, Here’s more on the story:

WAPO – All those emotions stem from a long-simmering fight over cows, which boiled over during the weekend.

For more than 20 years, Bundy, a Nevada farmer, has allowed his cattle to graze on federal land, and his main contention is that the government doesn’t really own the land. The Bureau of Land Management finally started rounding up the cows this weekend. They initially wanted to sell them at auction in Utah, but Gov. Gary Herbert argued that the whole controversy needed to be contained to Nevada. He succeeded, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, but Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval is still pissed about the whole affair.

“No cow justifies the atmosphere of intimidation which currently exists nor the limitation of constitutional rights that are sacred to all Nevadans,” Sandoval said in a Tuesday statement. “The BLM needs to reconsider its approach to this matter and act accordingly.”

He took particular issue with the government’s decision to establish a specific area in which residents could protest.

“Most disturbing to me is the BLM’s establishment of a ‘First Amendment Area’ that tramples upon Nevadans’ fundamental rights under the U.S. Constitution,” he said in the statement.

A park service spokeswoman told the Las Vegas Review Journal that the area was intended to do just the opposite. Roads had to be closed to protect safety during the cattle removal, she said, but the service wanted to make sure protestors still had an area to gather.

Here’s more on this, including an interview with Cliven Bundy from Hannity tonight:

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